So the original devs have all long since left the firm, and as I’m sure you’ve discovered the documentation is far from complete.
With that said, it sounds like you haven’t read the original requirements doc, and so you’ve misunderstood what DEMOCRACY was built for. It’s not a control subsystem, it’s a sacrificial sandbox environment to partition attackers away from the rest of the system and limit the damage they can do to vital components like ECONOMY and HUMAN_RIGHTS.
The ‘Constitution.doc’ file specifies the parameters of the sandboxed environment, and is supposed to ensure that the rest of the system can continue functioning whatever goes on in here. It’s on protected drive space to be hard for attackers to edit: on a quick review, though, it looks like there have been some attacks on the logic used to read and parse it from disk.
The Shadow Cabinet backup system is implementing industry-best-practice STATIONARY_BANDIT algorithms to align attackers with the system.
We still have a lot of issues with (CR|K)OOK-class viruses, but since DEMOCRACY was implemented we’ve avoided having any outages to the FOOD system, which is better than any of our competitors.
Give me a call if you have more questions: my team doesn’t own this code, but we’ve had to interface with it in the past and we’re familiar with some of its nuances.
So the original devs have all long since left the firm, and as I’m sure you’ve discovered the documentation is far from complete.
With that said, it sounds like you haven’t read the original requirements doc, and so you’ve misunderstood what DEMOCRACY was built for. It’s not a control subsystem, it’s a sacrificial sandbox environment to partition attackers away from the rest of the system and limit the damage they can do to vital components like ECONOMY and HUMAN_RIGHTS.
The ‘Constitution.doc’ file specifies the parameters of the sandboxed environment, and is supposed to ensure that the rest of the system can continue functioning whatever goes on in here. It’s on protected drive space to be hard for attackers to edit: on a quick review, though, it looks like there have been some attacks on the logic used to read and parse it from disk.
The Shadow Cabinet backup system is implementing industry-best-practice STATIONARY_BANDIT algorithms to align attackers with the system.
We still have a lot of issues with (CR|K)OOK-class viruses, but since DEMOCRACY was implemented we’ve avoided having any outages to the FOOD system, which is better than any of our competitors.
Give me a call if you have more questions: my team doesn’t own this code, but we’ve had to interface with it in the past and we’re familiar with some of its nuances.